I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion.
control + D does not exit Python as it does in Lion; instead it splits the screen.
Meanwhile, I also haven't figured out how to continue writing after having viewed the contents of a text document - the terminal doesn't allow it.
Hello hello hello!
ex12.txt (END)
So far, no matter what I push after this, I get a nasty little beeping sound
As Control + D works for me on multiple Macs, I'll presume something is amiss with your installation, keyboard or keyboard handler. (Your difficulty with the pager also lends credence to this theory.)
You can use the alternate quit() to exit the interpreter until you have looked at how Python was installed or think of some modifications you might have on the key mapping on your Mac.
You can type exit() to exit Python.
exit() in the Python interpreter shell is the canonical way to exit the Python interpreter shell. It works for all Python interpreter shells across all Python versions >2.6 across all operating systems.
I had the same problem and I came across this post.
I think we both thought that we did ^ Ctrl-D but we actually did ⌘ Cmd-D, which is different shortcut and splits the terminal window.
